flip
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There’s also a risk on the flip side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Only if you alone are using an AI model that is significantly better than everyone else’s will your odds of beating the market become potentially better than a coin flip.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
And the $12.5 billion he will receive from the Lakers flip is only a drop in the bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Most people badly time a front flip off a five-metre platform and get winded," she said in the clip.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
I run up the slide, catch the bar at the top, and flip over it, landing on my feet.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Even if you look slightly farther afield—specifically to a Montecito home that was bought by A-list home flipper Ellen DeGeneres in November 2025—it’s clear that price estimates don’t always reflect a home’s true value.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The three-bedroom, one-bath home was dilapidated before an out-of-state house flipper fixed it up, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
One ex-house flipper said he’d experimented with 50 AI-generated business ideas before landing on one he liked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"I picked it up and thought I saw a movement in one flipper, so I carried it back to the campsite".
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
Her one hand was limp, like a flipper.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier’s.
From Time ● Jan. 27, 2015
His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier's.
From Time Magazine Archive
That does not mean the weather suddenly changes when the calendar flips to 1 September.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Online videos have shown Unitree robots performing back flips and cartwheels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In fact, of course, the chances of a coin coming up heads are 50% with each flip, and they have nothing to do with how many heads or tails came in prior flips.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Jay takes my pack, flips open the MedKit.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
If a charted instrument falls below that line after an extended period above it, that can be viewed as a warning that the trend may have flipped from rising to falling.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
The mother of a girl who was crushed by a bus and trapped after it flipped while the family were on their first ever holiday abroad has urged people not to "scrimp" on travel insurance.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
In this case, the neutrons and protons in the nucleus essentially flipped their internal magnets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Watson started the team’s preseason opener before Sanders came in, and that order is set to be flipped for the next exhibition game against the Buffalo Bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Penelope flipped the pages, looking for some passage that both she and the children might find sufficiently distracting to make them forget that the admiral had not yet returned.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Williams said Greta was freed within five minutes of the bus flipping, and was taken to Ozel Manavgat Eslem Hastenesi hospital, alongside the driver, by ambulance.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
By flipping out at anyone who brings it up, they’re only ensuring more people are paying attention.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
This fallacy is perhaps best understood in the context of flipping a coin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Their company has been prolific at cobbling together oil-rich acreage and flipping it to other energy producers in multibillion-dollar deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
In Auburn’s circles, spirits began performing all kinds of miracles, from flipping hats and playing the harp to suggesting appropriate medicines for sick relatives.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
